Blair Horner: A New Attack on Health Care
No sooner had the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in support of the constitutionality of the federal health care reform law, than a new attack was launched on health coverage for the poor. One provision of...
View ArticleFederal Grant To Help Low Income Nursing Students
A small college in Springfield Massachusetts has been awarded a federal grant for its nursing school. It will help respond to a national call for a more highly educated and ethnically diverse...
View ArticleVermont Health Exchange Receives Conditional Federal Approval
Vermont has received conditional federal approval for its plan to create a consumer-friendly health insurance exchange.Vermont is among a number of states that have received word from the U.S....
View ArticleCritics Slam Health Care Financing Plan
The Shumlin Administration released its Health Care Reform Financing Plan late last week. This week a group of advocates and Republican lawmakers criticized the report, saying it offered no real...
View ArticleMassachusetts Health Policy Official Discusses Priorities
Massachusetts ,which pioneered universal access to health insurance, is now beginning the next phase of healthcare reform: reining in the run-away costs. The executive director of the new agency...
View ArticleFeds Delay Health Exchanges, Vermont Moves Forward
Implementation of health care exchanges, a key facet of the Affordable Care Act, is being delayed in states where the federal government is controlling them. The move is not expected to affect...
View ArticleDoctors Raise Concerns About Vermont Health Care Reforms
A group of physicians opposed to Vermont’s move to create a single-payer health care system is warning that planned changes could drive practitioners out of the state.
View ArticleMassachusetts Panel Reviews Health Care Cost Control Efforts
While Obamacare is being rolled out across the country Massachusetts, which pioneered the health care reform, is moving to the next stepcost containment. A watchdog agency charged with monitoring...
View ArticleShumlin Recommitting VT To Health Care Plan
A critic of Vermont's health care reform efforts says the governor's recommitment to creating the nation's first single payer health care system is a threat to the Vermont economy.
View ArticleRepublican Leaders Discuss Vermont Health Connect Changes
Vermont’s lieutenant governor and the minority leaders of the House and Senate, all Republicans, met at the Statehouse Tuesday to discuss the Shumlin Administration’s move to fire the company that...
View ArticleMassachusetts Offers Comparison Shopping For Health Care
Officials in Massachusetts launched a new effort this week to educate people about the cost of health care. The prices charged by different hospitals, clinics, and physician practices for hundreds of...
View ArticleThree Legislators Ask Vermont To Cut Ties With Health Economist
Three Vermont lawmakers are urging the administration of Governor Peter Shumlin to sever ties with a Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist who was shown on video saying it was the "stupidity...
View ArticleVermont Stops Paying Single Payer Consultant
In what has become a minor national political scandal, an economist’s controversial comments on the Affordable Care Act have cost him consulting fees. But he will complete his work on a financing plan...
View ArticleOfficials Discuss Health Financing Plan
The director of health reform for Governor Peter Shumlin says the biggest threat to a plan to make Vermont the first state in the country with a universal, publicly funded health care system was the...
View ArticleHealth Reform Critics Dismayed By House Committee Reassignment
A House member critical of some of Vermont’s health care reform measures is expected to be removed from the House Health Care Committee.
View ArticleVermont Republicans Want Federal Investigation Into Health Care Reform Efforts
Republican leaders in the Vermont legislature are asking for a federal investigation of the state's spending on its health care exchange and reforms, with a particular focus on a contract with...
View ArticleShumlin Seeks All-Payer Waiver From Feds For Vermont
Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin will be in the nation's capital Wednesday to seek an "all-payer waiver" from the federal government.
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